A folk remedy for colds quick action for adults and children. Recipes with lemon, vodka, pepper, ginger, honey, at home

Cold - the common name of acute respiratory diseases. Folk remedies play an important role in the treatment and prevention. In the kitchen, there will always be the ingredients to relieve the painful symptoms of malaise.

Symptoms of the common cold

The first manifestations of colds are - intoxication and respiratory failure, namely:

• weakness, and malaise;
• sore throat;
• heaviness in the body;
• aches in the joints;
• cough;
• runny nose and nasal congestion;
• increase in temperature;
• headache;
• sneezing;
  
• sweating;
• lack of appetite;
• lacrimation and conjunctivitis;
• painful swollen lymph nodes in the neck.

The manifestation of symptoms, and the severity of their sequence, can determine the form of colds. The disease occurs after exposure to cold, which affects the body's immune defense. Cause ailments are always the viruses and bacteria.

They are transmitted through the air by coughing, sneezing or talking.

ARI - the common name of infectious - inflammatory diseases of the airways. In 90% of cases are of viral origin, and are called - SARS. Sore throat is a bacterial nature and manifests itself as swelling, redness of the throat and plaque on the tonsils.

Influenza - a viral infection, which is distinguished by the transience and the severity of symptoms of primary characteristics: sharp race temperatures up to 38 - 39 ° C, a pronounced toxicity (nausea, headache, body aches, weakness) redness of the eyes. May later denote cough, sore throat and runny nose.

When to start treatment?

You need to start treatment right away. It is necessary to observe three basic rules: Drinking to 3 liters of liquid (for detoxifying and moisture loss compensation), bed rest and airing.

Drugs for the treatment of SARS, does not exist. The immune system itself to cope with foreign microorganisms.

It should only help to cope with the disease at an early stage, and to get rid of its manifestations: runny nose, sore throat, cough.

Methods of home treatment

A folk remedy for colds - this concept has come to us from time immemorial. Recipes passed down from generation to generation, and their effectiveness is proved by time. Traditional medicine is part of alternative medicine, and provides a knowledge of the disease, the route and means of healing.

For the prevention and treatment of acute respiratory disease in home use such methods naturopathic (natural healing, natural drugs):

• Aromatherapy.
• Apitherapy.
• Phytotherapy.
• Hydrotherapy.

Aromatherapy - the use of scents and essential oils in the form of baths, inhalations and grindings. apiotherapy - the use of bees and their metabolic products. Compounds bee products enhance the properties of each other.

Herbal medicine (herbal medicine) is represented by such forms as:

• liqueurs;
• broths;
• extracts;
• lotions;
• ointments from herbs.

Apifitoterapiya - it involves complex preparations on the basis of "api" and "herbal" ingredients.

Hydrotherapy - the use of water for prevention and treatment in the form of:

• general and local baths;
  
• rubdowns;
• wraps;
• compresses;
• rinses;
• douches.

Rubbing with essential oils

The use of essential oils for rubbing or massaging has a positive result when supercooling, when expressed symptoms of colds, and as a prophylactic.

Essential oils from cold have different properties, and are divided into two groups:

Since antibacterial activity	antiviral
cedar	tea tree
basil	lemon
fir	eucalyptus
Pine	juniper
lavender	grapefruit
sage	carnation
rosemary	laurel
spruce	cinnamon
mint	bergamot
thyme	kayaputa
geranium	orange

Wellness rastirok mixture is prepared in such proportions: 10 ml substrate (any vegetable oil) is added to the essential oil. That's enough for one rubbing. You can prepare for future use, and store in containers made of dark glass.

Apply the mixture was cooked smooth massaging movements on dry, clean skin of the back, chest, neck and feet. Then you need to dress warmly, wrap yourself in a blanket and lie down for 40 - 60 minutes.

Recipes essential rastirok

To 10 ml of base was added (drop):

• Rosemary -2.
• Lemon - 1.
• Eucalyptus - 2.

Or 1 drop:

• Lemon.
• Eucalyptus.
• Rosemary.
• Pine.
• Thyme

Or drop:

• Peppermint - 3.
• Eucalyptus - 1.
• Tea tree - 1.

Or a combination of:

• Eucalyptus - 1.
• Lavender - 1.
• Tea Tree -2.

And apply this ratio:

• Eucalyptus - 2.
• Thyme -1.

Inhalation: recipes folk remedies

Inhalation - administering a drug and is biological active substances with a stream of inhaled air. Folk remedies by inhalation are well demonstrated for colds.

A solution of salt (marine) or soda

In liter of hot water to dissolve tablespoon salt or soda. It moisturizes the mucosa TTP, removes the phlegm, has antiseptic properties, combats pathogenic flora.

With herbs

It applies to:

• pine, cedar, fir and juniper needles;
• oak, birch and eucalyptus leaves;
• linden flowers, chamomile, lavender, mint, sage.

Use single plant or collection of a few. Insist 1 tbsp. l. in a beaker of boiling water (20 to 30 min.), bring to 1 liter.

With citrus peel

Pour cup boiling water peel with 2 fruit, hold in a water bath or simmer 3 min.

With essential oils

Settling on mucosal - create a protective cover, reduce swelling and relieve pain. It has antiseptic and expectorant. Lists of essential oils are presented in the table. 2 drops of essential oils to mix in a liter of hot water.

Eyes kept closed.

Cold method. Apply 1 drop of e. m. on a napkin and take a breath. Or place in a room open container e. m.

With onion and garlic

The hot water is put crushed garlic and onion. Pour boiling water from the kettle, and place it in the flesh of garlic or onions. Breathe through the spout. Chopped onion and garlic to spread in the patient's room.

Terms of home inhalation:

• They should not be at a high temperature procedure.
• Not exceed (40 - 45 degrees) the steam temperature.
• Eating for 1.5 hours before the procedure.
• Do not go out into the fresh air for half an hour.
• Refrain 1 hour of socializing and smoking.

Recipes solutions for gargling

A folk remedy for colds - gargling has a positive effect in the fight against colds. To achieve results, perform the procedure you need warm water several times a day.

In the following composition recipe ingredients in a glass of water calculated:

1. Teaspoon baking soda and salt, with the addition of 3 drops of iodine (1 drop children, from 5 years).
2. Furatsilin - 2 tablets.
3. Shredded horseradish, honey and ground cloves - 1 hr. l.
4. Camomile -9 g, 15 min. hold on low heat.
5. Soda '25
6. Calamus rhizomes -20 g (insist 5 hours).
7. Salt and soda - 10 g, 1 egg beaten egg white.
8. Mother coltsfoot, eucalyptus, sage - 1 hr. l. Boil for 15 min., 1 liter. honey, pinch citric acid.
9. Sage -10 g Boil for 15 min., 1 hr. l. sea ​​salt.

• Sage, gourd - 1 tbsp. l. Waterbath - 5 min.
• Hydrogen peroxide -3 ml.
• Polygonum snake root, birch buds, mint, flax seed collection -10 g.
• Collection of herbs: chamomile, raspberry leaves, oak bark, St. John's wort, eucalyptus leaves, sage, melissa - 10 g

Below are recipes for natural juices.

Eat 1 tbsp. l. - 3 times a day:

• Beet juice, a little bit of apple cider vinegar.
• Mix lemon juice, horseradish and onion. You can individually.
• Beet juice, honey, aloe pulp, vinegar - in equal proportions.

Traditional recipes nasal drops

Before burying the nose, practiced his washing. Lavage - a mechanical cleaning of the nasal mucosa. This procedure reduces the likelihood of infection (and proliferation) drip viruses and bacteria.

Mixtures for washing:

• saline;
• sea ​​salt - 5 g salt (food 2 times less) and soda water glass.
• Peroxide - 3 ml glass of water.
• Propolis - 10 drops, 10 grams of salt, 2 drops of iodine per liter of water.
• Infusions and decoctions of herbs (chamomile, sage, marigold, eucalyptus) - 5 g per 1 liter of raw water.

Irrigate the nose can be a syringe, pear, tea brewing and special vessels - watering.

Use a syringe to flush the nose, it is strictly forbidden - pressure jet spreads the infection further.

Drops:

• Aloe juice, carrot juice. 1: 2.
• Onion juice, boiled water. 1: 5.
• Finely chopped onion (100g), water (50 ml), 10 g of honey. Insist and filter.
• Aloe juice, water. 1: 1.
• beet juice (can soured) or broth.
• Honey, water. 1: 2.
• Honey, beet juice. 1: 3.
• Green cones (spruce, pine) 100 g per 500 ml of water. Boil, brew 4 h.
• Juice of viburnum.
• Herbal (oregano, pine buds, mallow, coltsfoot, willow bark) 10 g per 100 ml of water. Insist 1 h and boiled for 5 min.
• Herbal (root violet, oregano, yarrow, snowball bark bark, wild rose, sage) and 10 g per 200 ml of water. Boil for 5 min. and insist.
• eucalyptus leaf 2 tbsp. l. 200ml of any vegetable oil. Heat 10 min., Infuse 5 hours.
• Vegetable oil with carrot juice 1: 1 + a little garlic juice.
• The head of garlic, 100 g of onion, vegetable oils (glass floor).
• Vegetable oil hold 30 min. in a water bath, cooled, comminuted garlic cloves 4. Insist 2 hours.

Means for oral administration

A folk remedy for colds, used inside, will greatly facilitate the patient's condition. Fruits and vegetables, spices and herbs, herbal tinctures and decoctions, teas and honey products - all this is an incomplete list of the variety of forms for internal use.

Products, the use of which individually and in complex media, help to recover from respiratory diseases:

• Viburnum berries, raspberries, currants.
• Garlic, onion and horseradish.
• Citrus.
  
• Milk, butter.
• Nuts.
• Raw conifers.
• Production of beekeeping.
• Phyto products.
• Spices and seasonings.

Recipe with honey, ginger, lemon

Cough mixture. Chop in a blender with lemon ginger (1: 1), add 150 g of honey. Stir, put in a jar and keep in the refrigerator. For the prevention and treatment of ARI take a mixture of 1 h. l. in a day. If sore throat and cough - 1 hour. l. mixture put under the tongue and sucked.

Tea:

• Cough can be prepared from a mixture solution of 1 h. l. in a beaker of hot water.
• In the second variant: shredded ginger with lemon you need to pour boiling water and infuse. Honey is added later, when the tea will warm. Tea 3 times a day, after going to bed and bundle up.
  
• 1 tbsp. l. cinnamon, ginger, orange peel, and at 1 h. l. leaves of mint and cardamom, a slice of lemon, 2 cups of water. Boil ginger with water, and then enter the rest of the ingredients and let it brew. Eat small portions.

For children prepare the following mixture: 1 tbsp. honey warmed in a water bath, 10 ml of lemon and ginger juice. Giving a once a day for 1 hour. l.

Tea with honey

Tea has long been positioned as a therapeutic agent. Gradually, the Tea Party of wellness treatments developed into a daily ritual. Honey has unique health properties, and comprises useful microelements (manganese, iron).

Honey in hot tea to put it is impossible, from the heat it loses its healing powers. He lay down only in the cold tea. Together, they reinforce the effectiveness of each other. As a result, tea with honey has anti-inflammatory, diaphoretic and a reducing effect.

Garlic and honey

The combination of garlic and honey is a fount of useful components that can work wonders. It is used as an immune stimulant and anti-inflammatory agent. Connect chopped garlic and honey, infuse, and take 1 hour. l. 3 times a day. We can consume tea.

Vodka with pepper

After a thorough hypothermia, when the first symptoms of the common cold - vodka with pepper can be a good way to prevent development of the disease. Used warming rubbing, compresses, and in small doses inside.

100 grams of vodka - teaspoon ground red pepper.

Tincture of capsicum burning vodka (pepper vodka). The vessel with vodka put 1 - 2 peppers, and insist. It should not be taken at an elevated temperature.

Vodka with a raspberry

Freshly picked raspberries pour vodka, stored in the refrigerator. It helps with sore throat, cough and runny nose. Add 1 h. l. in tea.

Hot wine with spices

Glintwein - heated dry red wine with the inclusion of fruits, spices and herbs. Drink as the remedy - warms, cleans and has an antiseptic effect. Accept for the prevention of respiratory diseases, and in the initial stage of cold.

Qualitative and invigorating mulled wine will, subject to a few rules:

• Used glass or enameled ware.
• Fortress used wine - 7 - 12%.
• Ground spices do not apply.
• Decoction in wine is poured on the vessel wall, to preserve its taste.

Basis mulled - wine (700ml) heated to 70 degrees. The small amount of water (200 mL) and add fruit flavored ingredients boil and infuse. Drain the wine and add to.

A combination of fruits and spices:

1. Nutmeg 1 pcs., Clove 5 pcs., 3 cinnamon sticks, cut orange 1, 50 g of sugar.
2. Ginger - 20g Cinnamon - 1 coli, allspice - 5 peas, ½ lemon, apple 1.
3. 1 pc. orange and apple, ginger - 20g Cinnamon - 2 sticks 5 inflorescences clove.

For therapeutic purposes, mulled wine should be consumed hot, before going to bed.

Beer with honey

Warming cocktail preparing simple: 1 glass of warm beer (30 degrees), add 25 grams of honey. It is used as a compress or drunk at night.

Cognac with honey

recipes:

• 50 g cognac put 10 g honey.
• In the heated brandy to add a little lemon juice and honey.
• In tea with lemon pour the cognac in the amount of '35 Eat honey and drink tea.
• Eat Art. l. honey and preheated brandy glass drink with lemon.

Milk with garlic

From the common cold to drink a glass of warm milk with 10 drops of garlic juice. Eat 5 days to support the body's immune system.

TTP will treat warm infusion yoghourt (1 cup) with 5 teeth milled garlic. Take 1 h. l. up to 5 times a day.

Get rid of wet cough medicine to help this: 1 glass of warm milk or whey acidic add 5 grams of garlic juice. But, most of the benefits of garlic is, if it is used in pure form. Heating and mixing with milk softens its effect, deprives him of miraculous powers.

Milk with honey

At 1 hr. l. honey and baking soda in a glass of milk. 1 bay leaf, peppercorns 5, and a pinch of ground cinnamon and turmeric per liter of milk. Boil, cool and bring to 50 g honey. Drink a glass 3 times a day.

Milk with onions

Melkoporezannuyu onion add a glass of milk, heat. Cool, strain and drink.

briar

Rosehip is rich in the content of vitamins (C, A, B, E, K) and trace elements. To 1 liter of water - 100 g of berries. Boil and infuse (available thermos). Drink water instead. You can add lemon and honey.

Tea with snowball

Kalina enriched in iron, vitamins A, B, C, and possess antioxidant properties. This is one of the most powerful tools for colds. The therapeutic effect are its fruits, bark, roots and flowers. It is used in all the manifestations of the inherent cold.

Put in a cup of boiling water 2 tbsp. l. berries (dry, candied, frozen). Withstand 3 hours. Serving to 4 cups a day. Babies 1 cup of tea is divided into 3 doses.

Decoction of walnuts and honey

Cough helps broth 4 nuts (shelled) and 1 hour. l. elderberry in 500 ml of water, followed by 25 g of honey. Take Art. l. 3 times a day.

When you need medical assistance?

The human body fights infection of the patient on a clear physiological laws. With the advent of high temperature, it begins to produce protein - interferon. Which reaches its climax on the 3rd day of the disease, and on the 4th day comes improvement.

The reason to see a doctor is:

• No improvement on day 4. 5-6 day in the blood produces antibodies, which finally eliminate sources of disease. Therefore, the 6-7 day completely normal temperature.
• The elevated temperature for 6-7 days of illness. It is necessary to assess the dynamics of the patient's condition.
  
• For 2 - 3 days the condition worsens.

prevention

Precautions in prevention can help avoid serious illness and complications from them.

During the autumn-winter rampant epidemics must adhere to the following guidelines:

1. Avoid closed, poorly ventilated areas. They concentrated a huge amount of sources of contamination (viruses and bacteria).
2. In a residential area not to create hothouse conditions, it is necessary to carry out ventilation and humidify the air.
3. Guard against hypothermia.
4. Take antioxidants - to enhance the resilience of cells. The most powerful antioxidant is vitamin C (ascorbic acid). Daily dose - 1 g adults and 0.2 - 0.5 g children. At the first sign of lung ailments, vitamin dose should be increased to 2 g
5. Oxolinic ointment to lubricate the mucous membranes of the nose 2 times a day.
   
6. Rinse mouth and nasal mucosa hydrogen peroxide solution (5 ml per 200 ml of water).

Application folk remedies has great importance in the prevention and treatment of colds.

Author of the article: Natasha Razdobreeva

Registration of the article: Lozinski Oleg

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